Re: [nukkad] The veil

["Rohit Mansukhlal" <>]

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On 3/24/08, Dr.M.C. Gupta  wrote:
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> Lingua franca means a common spoken language. Arabic is spoken nowhere
> outside the thinly populated Arabia. The vast majority of Muslims in the
> world don't know or speak Arabic.
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> I think Taher bhai's point can be likened to our learning of Sanskrit as
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   religious classics, just as many Christians may like to learn Latin, to
know their old books
  in original. If a non-Arab cares for Arabic with that intent in mind, it
is somewhat under-
  standable. But aiming to learn Arabic as lingua franca of all Muslims
across the globe
  smacks petrid of age old fanatic and outdated concept of Umma ( forming
one Muslim
  nation on the earth ).

  Rohit Zaveri

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